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Site links search box is the search box your get in google search results when you search for your website name in google search. It looks similar to this. Here is how to get site-links search box in your site. Create a custom search engine using expertec from https://cse.expertrec.com/?platform=cse Read more…

Updated wordpress to 5.0 and not happy with the new Gutenberg editor? Follow the below steps to replace your Gutenberg editor with the old classic editor. Before you follow the instructions, make sure your are one the gutenberg editor. It looks like this Login to wordpress admin panel Go to Read more…

Manual extractor is used to extract certain parts of your pages and display them in search results. This can be used if a certain pattern is available on your website that can be followed and extracted by expertrec’s search crawler. If not sure, you can switch to automatic extraction. ￼￼Examples- Read more…

Here are steps to create a wordpress search engine using expertrec. Go to https://cse.expertrec.com Choose wordpress. Enter your wordpress website URL. Wait for crawl to complete and check your demo. If in case if your PDFs are not coming in your search results, follow the steps below. The next step Read more…

Google custom search is a nice product that lets you add search functionalities . Here are some disadvantages to keep in mind while using google custom search. No control over what is indexed or when– Google decides which of your pages are crawled and when. You cannot force google’s crawlers Read more…

Here are steps to exclude certain pages form your expertrec custom search engine search results. Sign in to https://cse.expertrec.com/?platform=cse Navigate to crawl-> What to crawl->Filter Under filter URLs-> Enter the URLs or the URL patterns you want to exclude. Choose will be ignored. Add more URLs or URL patterns you Read more…

There are two search modes that come with the expertrec custom search Search overlay mode. (search results will load on the same page) Search results on another page.(search results will load on another page). The default UI is the overlay UI where the search results pops up in the same Read more…

In this article we will see how to increase the search suggestions in expertrec custom search engine. This can be established with the help of a pre hook script in your control panel . What is a pre-hook script ? A pre-script hook is a piece of code that runs Read more…

Facets helps in drilling down your on site search results based on file types or other meta data of search data.(for example pdf, images etc..) By default certain facets like pdf, html ,applications are enabled in your expertrec custom search. To add or disable or add more facets, follow the Read more…

A pre-script hook is a piece of code that runs before the search is loaded. Here are some applications of this pre-hook scripts feature- Increasing number of suggestions (or) drop down results in the search autocomplete UI Disable search listing pages. Increasing number of search results in a page. And Read more…